The 2015/2016 Simple-Talk Awards

Once more it is time for our readers to vote on the top
nominations for the Simple Talk Awards. Here we list the top nominations and the
dazzling award badges. Every vote makes our awards more valuable for the
recipients!

It is that time of year once more to vote for the Simple-Talk awards. These have been awarded annually for some years now and have grown from being initially an ‘Editor’s choice’, and have come a long way from their origins in a heated discussion in a smoke-filled room in the Waggon and Horses pub. This year as a change, we invited the Friends of Redgate to provide the nominations. We then selected their most popular nominations for your votes. Although we’ve tried to make every nomination specific to the past year, (e.g. books actually published in the past year) we’ve allowed some latitude. For voting, it is more important to make the award to the nomination that was most important for you in the past year.

It has irked us, here on Simple-Talk, that the IT industry are so shy in giving out awards. You hear of award-winning architects and artists, but what about the award-winning bloggers and database pundits?

Awards are worthless without a popular vote, and this is where we rely on you, the good readers of Simple-Talk to turn these awards into popular acclamation that the winner can rightly boast about.

To place your vote, have a look through the nominations and, when you’ve made up your mind click on the SurveyMonkey poll to cast your votes. We’ll be announcing the winners in the next Simple-Talk newsletter and on Twitter @Simple_Talk! You’ve got two weeks to deliberate as voting closes on Wednesday April 6th.

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Did your dog research this list?
While Paul White’s Blog has some great content it has had zero technical content since April 2014.

Anonymous

Paul White
Now writes for sqlperformance.com. Not sure it’s his "blog" as I think those are paid articles, but they’re still high quality. Agreed that the link should be fixed. (And anyway, Aaron Bertrand does most of the heavy lifting on that site and he should have been nominated for this, either instead of Paul or in addition to Paul. Seems very odd to leave him out as he’s creating some of the best performance content these days that people can actually use on a day-to-day basis.)

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